Curtiss Bay

Location of Davis Coast.

Curtiss Bay (64°2′S 60°47′W / 64.033°S 60.783°W / -64.033; -60.783) is a bay about 4 nautical miles (7 km) wide, indenting the west coast of Graham Land just north of Chavdar Peninsula, and entered between Cape Sterneck and Cape Andreas on Davis Coast. The name Bahia Inutil (useless bay) appearing on a 1957 Argentine chart is considered misleading; the bay has been used as an anchorage. The bay was renamed by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) in 1960 for Glenn Curtiss (1878–1930), American aeronautical engineer who pioneered seaplanes from 1911 onward.

References

• SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Curtiss Bay" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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